BARE BONES

BARE BONES is an experimental short film written, directed and scored by DEBBY FRIDAY. Conceived during the Covid-19 lockdown and shot in Vancouver, BC on 16mm, the film tells the story of a young woman who swallows a bee and begins to undergo a hallucinatory and transformative experience. Abstract visual sequences depict time and space fracturing around her as she succumbs to wave after wave of pure feeling.

Raal

A young man and his dog encounter a sinister force while on a walk through the woods.

Memórias de um Estrangulador de Loiras

First film by Julio Bressane shot in exile, "Memoirs" is a film about a man who repeatedly kills the same type of woman in same places, the same way. Filmed on the streets of London.

Indo...

Begotten

Begotten is the creation myth brought to life, the story of no less than the violent death of God and the (re)birth of nature on a barren earth.

The Other Side of the Witching Hour

A spellbinding journey into the mind of an insomniac, who spends each night haunted by strange and wonderful illusions from another world.

The Killer Walks Among Us

A parking lot is haunted by the spirit of a dead killer who waits for the perfect moment to unleash spooks and thrills. Who will be next?

Lost Footage

How would a found footage film look if the footage was never found? This conceptual art experiment questions the very nature of film and cinema while serving as an ironic tribute to the found footage horror pop culture. The found footage format provides the narrative justification for such a film to exist: the non-existence exists because the footage existed yet it was lost and never found.

Boys Night

"After chasing sunsets, one of life's simple joys is playing with the boys." - Kenneth Clark Loggins

Friend of the World

After a catastrophic global war, a young filmmaker awakens in the carnage and seeks refuge in the only other survivor: an eccentric, ideologically opposed figure of the United States military. Together, they brave the toxic landscape in search of safety... and answers.

Toxic Man

Ravaged by a debilitating illness, the Toxic Man sets out to stop the cabal of scientists and bureaucrats responsible for his metamorphosis in a surreal stab at vengeance.

The Virtues of Solitude

In the future, a second great flood covers most of the known world. Country borders collapse and language barrier disappear. All salvageable books are taken to a deep underground vault facility for protection. Run by priests, the facility is called The Stacks. As Olivia wanders the facility she discovers that she may not be alone and that a dark part of her past may have followed her into the narrow corridors of this inescapable purgatory.

Stir Crazy

To prevent himself from going insane in isolation, a young filmmaker conjures up an idea about a demented experimental director who tries to convince his harshest critic to enjoy his work.

Masking Threshold

Conducting a series of experiments in his makeshift home-lab, a skeptic IT worker tries to cure his harrowing hearing impairment. But where will his research lead him? "Masking Threshold" combines a chamber play, a scientific procedural, an unpacking video, and a DIY YouTube channel while suggesting endless vistas of existential pain and decay. Glimpse the world of the nameless protagonist in this eldritch tale, which is by no means for the faint of heart.

Santa Sangre

A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his mother – the leader of a strange religious cult – and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name.

鉄男II BODY HAMMER

A Japanese salaryman finds his body transforming into a weapon through sheer rage after his son is kidnapped by a gang of violent thugs.

Amacabra - The Metempsychosis of Justine S.

In the outer districts of West Berlin something strange is happening. Justine is getting a mysterious device by a person, which is called "The Hairs From The Cross Of Jesus". After her life is in total change. A surreal multi layer narration mindfuck film by Cosmotropia de Xam revisting the original locations of Zulawski's Possession (1981).

Cremaster 2

CREMASTER 2 is rendered as a gothic Western that introduces conflict into the system. On the biological level it corresponds to the phase of fetal development during which sexual division begins. In Matthew Barney's abstraction of this process, the system resists partition and tries to remain in the state of equilibrium imagined in Cremaster 1.

ハウス

Hoping to find a sense of connection to her late mother, Gorgeous takes a trip to the countryside to visit her aunt at their ancestral house. She invites her six friends, Prof, Melody, Mac, Fantasy, Kung Fu, and Sweet, to join her. The girls soon discover that there is more to the old house than meets the eye.

Hinterlands

Through a structuralist and simultaneously ambiguous form, the image's reality treads closer to the abstract, leaving the sunset and trees behind. As we enter the image's gloaming, it reveals its true eye: reality's pure haptic energy, where there is nothing but sonorous light, and the dregs of the Unknown.